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Ancient History Fangirl

How an Empire Ends: Culture of the Goths

Mar 27, 2025
01:48:04

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In our last episode, we delved into the archaeology of the pre-Roman Goths. But what about Gothic culture? What do we know about pre-Roman Gothic culture, before the Goths were Romanized?

 

To get a real sense of what is authentically Gothic is really difficult. We don’t have much information about the Goths’ daily lives or culture. We know almost nothing about their pre-Christian religious practices and beliefs. What we do have is a lot of military history from a Roman lens, and accounts from chroniclers like Tacitus—which have a lot of issues.

 

In this episode, we try to peel back the layers and discover what we can about pre-Roman Gothic culture.


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